WFMU: Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from March 29, 2023

Listener comments!
	🇰🇷 ♥ 7:00pm WR: Pretty much most of the time I'm listening.
	🇰🇷 ♥ 7:00pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Gary and all!!
	♥ 7:01pm Gary: Hola, WR and James!
	7:02pm chresti: Hi Gary bodega show!
	♥ 7:03pm Ike: Honk honk honk blurp
	🇰🇷 ♥ 7:05pm Webhamster Henry: Yeah ! Obama Fried Chicken tonight!
	♥ 7:06pm Gary: Evening, Chresti, Ike, and Henry!
	7:06pm peter: Hello Gary & gang!!
	♥ 7:07pm Gary: Peter! Nice to see you
	7:08pm peter: Sounds like an old school bodega Bodega show today!!
	♥ 7:08pm Gary: ↳ peter @7:08 Yes! Every now and then I realize I've strayed far, far from the path, and YANK! myself back again
	♥ 7:09pm Gary: ↳ peter @7:08 Actually, Peter, you'll be happy to note that it was while WORKING ON THE BAD AWFUL CRAPPY music show that I decided to do this one instead
	7:11pm peter: Wow I can’t wait!!
	♥ 7:12pm Ike: Obama Fried Chicken isn't still there, is it? Just out of curiosity, I looked for it on Yelp but nothing came up. Seems like there was more evidence of it around 2009-2010.
	♥ 7:16pm Gary: ↳ Ike @7:12 It was probably there in 2015 b/c that's when Jesse and I went to DJ Wow's
	7:44pm Jill B.: Hi Gary, Just stopping by to see what is on your agenda this evening.
	♥ 7:44pm Gary: Hi Mom! It's an all-African show tonight
	7:45pm Jill B.: Yay!
	♥ 7:46pm Gary: ↳ Jill B. @7:45 Haha, I think you'll like it
	♥ 7:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Ike @7:12 There used to be a few in Ridgewood and Flatbush, was it a franchise (or, just a lot of copycats) at least wow international is still around...
	7:47pm Dean: Gary, I just retrieved Clark Coolidge's Solution Passage from the campus library. Good to see it's a Sun & Moon imprint. Any tips on how I should approach it?
	7:49pm headcleaner: Wowzers, late but nice to be here
	♥ 7:49pm Gary: NGH and Dean! Dean, that is maybe my favorite poetry book by a living poet
	♥ 7:49pm Gary: ↳ headcleaner @7:49 Headcleaner!
	♥ 7:51pm Gary: ↳ Dean @7:47 Dean, maybe just dive in wherever, and read them aloud, or at least sound them out in your head
	7:52pm Dean: I checked it out, Gary, because you mentioned it was among your favorites. I always sound poems out in my head, Chaucer to Hejinian. Looking forward to it!
	7:54pm Dean: At another register, I recently picked up a collection of Geoffrey Hill's earlier works. I've always had a tough time with his poetry, but not quite so much these days. Are you attracted to work by the likes of him?
	♥ 8:01pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @7:52 do you sound sound poems in your head? i actually recently (well, if 2019 is recent) did an original text read-through of canterbury tales, as i was going through early modern english etymology, for obvious reasons...(the reading chaucer part, for obvious reasons...)
	♥ 8:01pm TDK60: Hi Gary, Popsters.
	♥ 8:03pm Gary: TDK60!
	♥ 8:03pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Galass" by "N'dongo Lô" from 1982-1989, senegal and the gambia were a confederation, known as senegambia. it was dissolved when senegal tried to strongarm gambia into closer integration...
	♥ 8:03pm Gary: ↳ Dean @7:54 Dean, I have to admit I don't know Geoffrey Hill's work at all, although his name is familiar
	8:04pm Dean: I remember reading Chaucer in college. It required reading out loud, of course, "for obvious reasons." But I don't like reading or hearing poetry out loud, despite the musical aspects of the form. Not sure why this is so.
	8:08pm Dean: Hill was a highly acclaimed British poet. His poetry is steeped in religious themes. He was very much an academic poet, much admired by Bloom, for example. (But Bloom's tastes ranged widely, contra the received view of his exclusivity.)
	8:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: GutenNochez ! Awlready delightful.
	♥ 8:10pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:04 same here, unless it's a language i'm not marginally fluent it (tone poetry and certain dadaists notwithstanding). (but poetry records make for great samples when a'turntabling...)
	♥ 8:10pm Gary: RevRab!
	♥ 8:11pm Gary: Ima read you guys a very short Clark Coolidge poem at the next mic break
	♥ 8:13pm northguineahills: ↳ Gary @8:11 only if you balance it w/ spoken word journeys by sir-mix-a-lot..
	8:16pm Dean: Terrific! Since radio demands audio communication, I'm totally open to hearing a reading of a poem. I have Coolidge's ROVA Variations, which I regard as a two-fer.
	8:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We got a Prawg Program ...can Poetry be far behind...
	8:21pm Dean: Not a bad idea, RRNov63. Could be difficult to pull off, but maybe worth it.
	8:21pm Dean: Let me guess, Gary. "When"?
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:22pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @8:11 I've been to Calvin Coolidge's home and grave. Does that count?
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:22pm Listener Gregory: Sorry for my late arrival. My life is 1 hour late today.
	♥ 8:22pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:22 Only to ten, ,Gregory
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:23pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @8:22 "Silent Cal"—he wrote no poetry.
	8:23pm Dean: The great L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E POTUS, Coolidge!
	8:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:22 ...they make a big deal of that old conservative up here in Vermont...
	8:24pm Dean: He sounded them in his head! It only sounded like silence.
	♥ 8:24pm Gary: ↳ Dean @8:21 Haha, good call, but not the one
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:24pm Listener Gregory: A woman met him at a reception, and she said, "I bet my husband that I could get you to say more than two words." He replied, "You lose." Now THAT is poetry!
	8:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:24 Granted ...but that's another POTUS...
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:27pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Binaba" by "Maïmouna Dembele" March around the kitchen music!
	8:32pm Dean: Thank you. A lovely interlude. AT WINTER The leaves are dead and hang hands of spinach. The stick, their stem, the arc of the world beyond time, its liverish passage. And the sun condense to starves of snow in the air light crust to the edge of the born mind.
	8:33pm Jill B.: Signing off. I was out in the garden for 3 hours and need to go rest my back.
	♥ 8:33pm Gary: Night, Mom! I'll give you a call this weekend
	8:33pm Dean: I'm working on a poem, "Rustic Abstract," a sestina.
	♥ 8:34pm Gary: ↳ Dean @8:33 Nice!
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:37pm WR: John Pietaro, who is a poet, has a program on Sheena's. His program is usually music with the NYC underground theme and an occasional beat poet poem here and there but recently he had an episode that was mostly poetry. wfmu.org...
	♥ 8:39pm Gary: ↳ WR @8:37 Yes!
	8:40pm Dean: Thanks, @WR. Good to know.
	8:42pm Listener Gregory: I’m going to sing this every time I start the car.
	8:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ WR @8:37 Interesting !
	8:51pm Dean: I'm going to sing this every time I answer the phone.
	8:52pm Dean: Messerli's still at it, yes? Green Integer? Always wanted to visit the Sun & Moon office in LA when I lived down there.
	♥ 8:53pm Gary: ↳ Dean @8:52 I think he's still doing Green Integer, but I'm not sure
	8:57pm Dean: I bought the first Sex Pistols' 45 in London, '76, in a drug store.
	8:57pm peter: i used to get some good Vietnamese CDs/DVDs at a drugstore in Field's Corner, Dorchester, MA
	8:58pm Dean: There are Indian markets in my neighborhood that have (in one case) hidden stashes of CDs.
	8:59pm rw: Evening!
	9:00pm Dean: ^ s/b (in one case hidden)
	♥ 9:00pm Gary: RW!
	9:01pm rw: I picked up a couple nice Indian CDs at random in a record store near Dean years ago.
	♥ 9:01pm Gary: Oh, man, so nice to hear everyone's finding music in drugstores (& other places)
	9:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Indian Bodega a block away has a wall of VHS.
	♥ 9:02pm Gary: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:01 VHS still!
	9:02pm rw: So Gary, you walk into a drugstore with an aisle of music. How many CDs do you go home with and how do you pick which ones?
	9:03pm Dean: If you remember, which store, rw?
	♥ 9:04pm Gary: ↳ rw @9:02 RW: I once walked out of a Cambodian market in the Bronx with a couple of bags of CDs and cassettes and illustrated Khmer lyric books -- it was a cash-only place, and so I had to empty my bank account of a couple hundred $$
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:04pm Listener Gregory: When I was a kid in suburban NJ, the only place to buy records was the local camera store. The owner's knowledge of music was on the order of "All the kids seem to love The Monkees."
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:04pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:04 Of course, I DID love The Monkees!
	9:05pm Dean: "A priest, a rabbi, and Gary walk into a drugstore with an aisle of music..." My biggest take was at the now defunct East Side Records in the La Cienega area of LA, just south of Griffith Park. The guy was some sort of outlet for mostly classical records from labels like Harmonia Mundi. I took off with a box of 50 CDs. Cost me $300.
	♥ 9:05pm Gary: ↳ Gary @9:04 I picked up maybe 50 to 100 pirated CDs at DJ Wow's in 2015 -- it was a bag or two filled with them
	9:06pm rw: Dean, I don't remember... it might have been on a corner up the hill from Pyramid Brewery. It was a pretty big store.
	♥ 9:06pm Gary: ↳ Dean @9:05 This is the kind of talk that makes me feel ok
	9:07pm Dean: Pyramid on Gilman in Berkeley? Or elsewhere?
	9:08pm Dean: My East Side take was in the '90s. To this day I have sealed CDs from that purchase.
	♥ 9:11pm Gary: ↳ rw @9:02 My philosophy is "Don't choose. Get them all"
	9:12pm rw: Dean, I think so. It was a long time ago. Is that the OG location?
	9:12pm Dean: Mine is, "Choose carefully, but err sometimes on the side of inclusion."
	9:15pm rw: Good philosophy Gary. Good for us listeners for sure!
	9:16pm Dean: Pyramid opened in Seattle. If you were in the Berkeley area, then you must have been to the brewery just blocks from where I sit. It closed in 2015. Must have been one of the Indian markets on University, a few blocks from Gilman, or maybe Sultana, which is just around the block.
	♥ 9:16pm Gary: ↳ rw @9:15 Bad for the wallet. When I have to choose, I try to get some hip hop, something that looks possibly psychedelic, something super stupid or bland looking, something very new, something very old
	♥ 9:18pm Gary: At bodegas, if I felt comfortable, I'd ask the person working there what they liked best. I had this one woman at a Balkan market sing one of her favorite songs from a CD she recommended to me. She sang it all the way through, from start to finish, while me and her co-worker looked on
	9:21pm Listener Gregory: Wow!
	9:22pm rw: Dean that sounds right. It was 20 yrs ago; thereabouts. Nice area to be sitting!
	♥ 9:25pm TDK60: Sounding great, Gary.
	9:25pm rw: Gary that sounds like a good strategy. Kind of the way my daughter plays roulette. She usually does pretty well.
	9:28pm Dean: I will typically lean toward a new recital of Bach--solo piano, solo violin, solo cello--that gets raves from Fanfare magazine. I'm rarely let down.
	9:29pm Dean: Can't have too many Goldberg Variations, cello suites, sonatas & partitas...
	♥ 9:30pm TDK60: Yeah, I got to check out Wendy's premiere the other day. Relaxed presentation, like sitting on her sofa while she spins.
	9:38pm peter: not from africa proper, but i've been on a big kick for kaseko, afro-surinamese dance music.. anyone else know this stuff?
	♥ 9:40pm Gary: ↳ peter @9:38 I might have some Surinamese CDs around her somewhere, mebbe? But saying I "know" that stuff would be a stretch
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:41pm doctorjazz: Been lurking, company, great sounds!
	♥ 9:42pm Gary: Doctor Jazz!
	9:44pm peter: i found a cool mixtape online of some of the modern stuff, which luckily has all of the rhythmic complexity of the old-school style intact, but electrified and played at breakneck speed.. very cool! i consider myself a drummer but can't even figure out what these guys are doing rhythm-wise.. they've got a sort of set-up similar to that of mexican banda, with the parts separated out to a snare drummer and a bass/splash player
	♥ 9:45pm Gary: Tears welling up in your eyes at the thought of the music ending? IT'S NOT ENDING! Sam Segal and his always-already Top of the Chops program, If You Lose Your Horse, begins right after this program, at 10:00 pm sharp. Tonight's episode: "Astonished Horse Leaves the Ranch by Force": wfmu.org...
	♥ 9:45pm Gary: ↳ peter @9:44 I gotta hear this, Peter!
	9:46pm peter: i'll see if i can dig up some links for you after the show!
	♥ 9:46pm Gary: ↳ peter @9:46 Danke
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:53pm doctorjazz: Going to Kenya and Rawanda in July, wonder if I can ship records back (trip cancelled by COVID, rescheduled)
	♥ 9:54pm Gary: ↳ doctorjazz @9:53 Whoa, jealous -- that sounds like an amazing trip
	9:54pm peter: This show had been one for the ages, Gary, thanks!
	♥ 9:55pm alanr: I was too lazy to bother checking in, but now off the couch and on my computer. Totally enjoying the show tonight, not just my love for this music, but my appreciation for someone doing the curating! Saludos from a rainy Mexico city.
	♥ 9:56pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "She's My Choice" by "Sweet Breeze" The vocalist reminds of Jimmy Cliff. / Good night, Gary!
	9:56pm Dean: Better, doc, videos from shows. Won't occupy the luggage.
	9:56pm Listener Gregory: @doctorj, I hear they’re just like New Jersey, only less Springsteen.
	9:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ Gary ~
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:58pm WR: So many great recordings tonight! Eh, just like every episode of Bodega Pop... Thank you! Gary!
	9:58pm rw: I hear the outro theme. Thank you Gary!
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:59pm Listener Gregory: You're our choice, Gary. Great show! Thanks for lifting our spirits even though they weren't low to begin with.
	♥ 10:00pm Gary: Night, everyone! Hi Alan!
	5:22pm Marie in Queens: Another fantastic show. Thanks so much, Gary. PS: I am your neighbor--I live in Woodside @)

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from March 29, 2023

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March 29, 2023: African Bodega
Late 20th & early 21st Century African pop found in African markets in Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Dallas, and Washington (DC)

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Much of the music tonight came from <a href="https://afropop.org/articles/dj-wows-african-cd-store-in-harlem">DJ Wow's Harlem store</a>

Much of the music tonight came from DJ Wow's Harlem store

Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Bodega Pop	Intro "Intro" by "Bodega Pop"	Bodega Pop			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Medina Sabakh	Marie Janneh "Marie Janneh" by "Medina Sabakh"	The Best of Medina Sabakh		Senegal	0:04:25 (Pop-up)
Medina Sabakh	Murit "Murit" by "Medina Sabakh"	The Best of Medina Sabakh		Senegal	0:09:42 (Pop-up)
Medina Sabakh	Sheik Ul Islam "Sheik Ul Islam" by "Medina Sabakh"	The Best of Medina Sabakh		Senegal	0:14:22 (Pop-up)
Medina Sabakh	Ndaanaan "Ndaanaan" by "Medina Sabakh"	The Best of Medina Sabakh		Senegal	0:20:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Awa Sangho	Tambin Y Tambor "Tambin Y Tambor" by "Awa Sangho"	Ala Ta	2014	Mali	0:25:42 (Pop-up)
Nkasei	Me Ko Medo "Me Ko Medo" by "Nkasei"	Yefri Tuabodom	2005	Ghana	0:28:26 (Pop-up)
Mr. Solomon	Odo Chisel "Odo Chisel" by "Mr. Solomon"	Slip Dance Album	2005	Ghana	0:33:57 (Pop-up)
Bezuayehu Demissie	Einde Wef "Einde Wef" by "Bezuayehu Demissie"	Salaysh	2014	Ethiopia	0:38:59 (Pop-up)
Manding Morry	Musol "Musol" by "Manding Morry"	Dokuwolom	2014	Gambia	0:44:14 (Pop-up)
Coumba Gawlo	Ndougou-ouri "Ndougou-ouri" by "Coumba Gawlo"	Sen Gawlo Yeksina		Senegal	0:47:13 (Pop-up)
N'dongo Lô	Galass "Galass" by "N'dongo Lô"	Aduna		Senegal	0:51:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Eduwoji	Superu instrumental "Superu instrumental" by "Eduwoji"	Yenko Nkoaa		Ghana	0:57:28 (Pop-up)
Maïmouna Dembele	N'Diarra "N'Diarra" by "Maïmouna Dembele"	Sumu		Mali	1:01:34 (Pop-up)
Maïmouna Dembele	Bintou Majga "Bintou Majga" by "Maïmouna Dembele"	Sumu		Mali	1:09:11 (Pop-up)
Maïmouna Dembele	Binaba "Binaba" by "Maïmouna Dembele"	Sumu		Mali	1:18:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Nana Wusu	Ogye (Instrumental) "Ogye (Instrumental)" by "Nana Wusu"	Ogye		Ghana	1:27:09 (Pop-up)
Cheikh N'Digel Lô	Folly Cagni "Folly Cagni" by "Cheikh N'Digel Lô"	Jamm		Senegal	1:31:21 (Pop-up)
Nana Wusu	Aware (Accapella) "Aware (Accapella)" by "Nana Wusu"	Ogye		Ghana	1:34:34 (Pop-up)
Orits Williki	A Wey We A Go Do "A Wey We A Go Do" by "Orits Williki"	Mubalamumbe	1996	Nigeria	1:39:40 (Pop-up)
Kaakyire Kwame Appiah	Atia Donko "Atia Donko" by "Kaakyire Kwame Appiah"	Kawaadonto	2006	Ghana	1:43:56 (Pop-up)
Yvonne Chaka Chaka	I'm in Love with a DJ	Princess Of Africa (The Best Of)	1992	South Africa	1:50:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Rigo Star	Attention! "Attention!" by "Rigo Star"	Attention!		DR Congo	1:55:34 (Pop-up)
Alou Dangare	Buranke "Buranke" by "Alou Dangare"	Le Grand Griotes Du Mali		Mali	1:59:17 (Pop-up)
Djenebe Seo	Anka Makiba "Anka Makiba" by "Djenebe Seo"	Le Grand Griotes Du Mali		Mali	2:04:29 (Pop-up)
Molobaly Ke	Tchimid Jama "Tchimid Jama" by "Molobaly Ke"	Le Grand Griotes Du Mali		Mali	2:09:58 (Pop-up)
Nabintou Diak	Mali Denw "Mali Denw" by "Nabintou Diak"	Le Grand Griotes Du Mali		Mali	2:16:49 (Pop-up)
Doussou Bagayoko	Faman "Faman" by "Doussou Bagayoko"	Le Grand Griotes Du Mali		Mali	2:21:01 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mad Fish	Me Feele Wo (Instrumental)	Max (Wone Me Baby)		Ghana	2:25:47 (Pop-up)
Mad Fish	Ankwasima Dede feat. Paa Sammy	Max (Wone Me Baby)		Ghana	2:31:18 (Pop-up)
Sam Mangwana	Georgette Eckins "Georgette Eckins" by "Sam Mangwana"	Georgette Eckins	1996	Congo	2:37:09 (Pop-up)
Daara J	Bopp Sa Bopp "Bopp Sa Bopp" by "Daara J"	Boomerang	2003	Senegal	2:45:27 (Pop-up)
Kamaldine	Alou "Alou" by "Kamaldine"	Wo dignè m'ma	2013	Guinée	2:49:14 (Pop-up)
Sweet Breeze	She's My Choice "She's My Choice" by "Sweet Breeze"	Flashback: A Decade of Hits 1970-80, Volume 1	2001	Nigeria	2:53:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Catrina Paslaru	Hei La Bodega "Hei La Bodega" by "Catrina Paslaru"	Hei La Bodega - Carnaval!	2000		2:56:57 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🇰🇷 ♥ 7:00pm WR: Pretty much most of the time I'm listening.
	🇰🇷 ♥ 7:00pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Gary and all!!
	♥ 7:01pm Gary: Hola, WR and James!
	7:02pm chresti: Hi Gary bodega show!
	♥ 7:03pm Ike: Honk honk honk blurp
	🇰🇷 ♥ 7:05pm Webhamster Henry: Yeah ! Obama Fried Chicken tonight!
	♥ 7:06pm Gary: Evening, Chresti, Ike, and Henry!
	7:06pm peter: Hello Gary & gang!!
	♥ 7:07pm Gary: Peter! Nice to see you
	7:08pm peter: Sounds like an old school bodega Bodega show today!!
	♥ 7:08pm Gary: ↳ peter @7:08 Yes! Every now and then I realize I've strayed far, far from the path, and YANK! myself back again
	♥ 7:09pm Gary: ↳ peter @7:08 Actually, Peter, you'll be happy to note that it was while WORKING ON THE BAD AWFUL CRAPPY music show that I decided to do this one instead
	7:11pm peter: Wow I can’t wait!!
	♥ 7:12pm Ike: Obama Fried Chicken isn't still there, is it? Just out of curiosity, I looked for it on Yelp but nothing came up. Seems like there was more evidence of it around 2009-2010.
	♥ 7:16pm Gary: ↳ Ike @7:12 It was probably there in 2015 b/c that's when Jesse and I went to DJ Wow's
	7:44pm Jill B.: Hi Gary, Just stopping by to see what is on your agenda this evening.
	♥ 7:44pm Gary: Hi Mom! It's an all-African show tonight
	7:45pm Jill B.: Yay!
	♥ 7:46pm Gary: ↳ Jill B. @7:45 Haha, I think you'll like it
	♥ 7:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Ike @7:12 There used to be a few in Ridgewood and Flatbush, was it a franchise (or, just a lot of copycats) at least wow international is still around...
	7:47pm Dean: Gary, I just retrieved Clark Coolidge's Solution Passage from the campus library. Good to see it's a Sun & Moon imprint. Any tips on how I should approach it?
	7:49pm headcleaner: Wowzers, late but nice to be here
	♥ 7:49pm Gary: NGH and Dean! Dean, that is maybe my favorite poetry book by a living poet
	♥ 7:49pm Gary: ↳ headcleaner @7:49 Headcleaner!
	♥ 7:51pm Gary: ↳ Dean @7:47 Dean, maybe just dive in wherever, and read them aloud, or at least sound them out in your head
	7:52pm Dean: I checked it out, Gary, because you mentioned it was among your favorites. I always sound poems out in my head, Chaucer to Hejinian. Looking forward to it!
	7:54pm Dean: At another register, I recently picked up a collection of Geoffrey Hill's earlier works. I've always had a tough time with his poetry, but not quite so much these days. Are you attracted to work by the likes of him?
	♥ 8:01pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @7:52 do you sound sound poems in your head? i actually recently (well, if 2019 is recent) did an original text read-through of canterbury tales, as i was going through early modern english etymology, for obvious reasons...(the reading chaucer part, for obvious reasons...)
	♥ 8:01pm TDK60: Hi Gary, Popsters.
	♥ 8:03pm Gary: TDK60!
	♥ 8:03pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Galass" by "N'dongo Lô" from 1982-1989, senegal and the gambia were a confederation, known as senegambia. it was dissolved when senegal tried to strongarm gambia into closer integration...
	♥ 8:03pm Gary: ↳ Dean @7:54 Dean, I have to admit I don't know Geoffrey Hill's work at all, although his name is familiar
	8:04pm Dean: I remember reading Chaucer in college. It required reading out loud, of course, "for obvious reasons." But I don't like reading or hearing poetry out loud, despite the musical aspects of the form. Not sure why this is so.
	8:08pm Dean: Hill was a highly acclaimed British poet. His poetry is steeped in religious themes. He was very much an academic poet, much admired by Bloom, for example. (But Bloom's tastes ranged widely, contra the received view of his exclusivity.)
	8:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: GutenNochez ! Awlready delightful.
	♥ 8:10pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:04 same here, unless it's a language i'm not marginally fluent it (tone poetry and certain dadaists notwithstanding). (but poetry records make for great samples when a'turntabling...)
	♥ 8:10pm Gary: RevRab!
	♥ 8:11pm Gary: Ima read you guys a very short Clark Coolidge poem at the next mic break
	♥ 8:13pm northguineahills: ↳ Gary @8:11 only if you balance it w/ spoken word journeys by sir-mix-a-lot..
	8:16pm Dean: Terrific! Since radio demands audio communication, I'm totally open to hearing a reading of a poem. I have Coolidge's ROVA Variations, which I regard as a two-fer.
	8:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We got a Prawg Program ...can Poetry be far behind...
	8:21pm Dean: Not a bad idea, RRNov63. Could be difficult to pull off, but maybe worth it.
	8:21pm Dean: Let me guess, Gary. "When"?
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:22pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @8:11 I've been to Calvin Coolidge's home and grave. Does that count?
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:22pm Listener Gregory: Sorry for my late arrival. My life is 1 hour late today.
	♥ 8:22pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:22 Only to ten, ,Gregory
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:23pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @8:22 "Silent Cal"—he wrote no poetry.
	8:23pm Dean: The great L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E POTUS, Coolidge!
	8:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:22 ...they make a big deal of that old conservative up here in Vermont...
	8:24pm Dean: He sounded them in his head! It only sounded like silence.
	♥ 8:24pm Gary: ↳ Dean @8:21 Haha, good call, but not the one
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:24pm Listener Gregory: A woman met him at a reception, and she said, "I bet my husband that I could get you to say more than two words." He replied, "You lose." Now THAT is poetry!
	8:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:24 Granted ...but that's another POTUS...
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:27pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Binaba" by "Maïmouna Dembele" March around the kitchen music!
	8:32pm Dean: Thank you. A lovely interlude. AT WINTER The leaves are dead and hang hands of spinach. The stick, their stem, the arc of the world beyond time, its liverish passage. And the sun condense to starves of snow in the air light crust to the edge of the born mind.
	8:33pm Jill B.: Signing off. I was out in the garden for 3 hours and need to go rest my back.
	♥ 8:33pm Gary: Night, Mom! I'll give you a call this weekend
	8:33pm Dean: I'm working on a poem, "Rustic Abstract," a sestina.
	♥ 8:34pm Gary: ↳ Dean @8:33 Nice!
	🇰🇷 ♥ 8:37pm WR: John Pietaro, who is a poet, has a program on Sheena's. His program is usually music with the NYC underground theme and an occasional beat poet poem here and there but recently he had an episode that was mostly poetry. wfmu.org...
	♥ 8:39pm Gary: ↳ WR @8:37 Yes!
	8:40pm Dean: Thanks, @WR. Good to know.
	8:42pm Listener Gregory: I’m going to sing this every time I start the car.
	8:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ WR @8:37 Interesting !
	8:51pm Dean: I'm going to sing this every time I answer the phone.
	8:52pm Dean: Messerli's still at it, yes? Green Integer? Always wanted to visit the Sun & Moon office in LA when I lived down there.
	♥ 8:53pm Gary: ↳ Dean @8:52 I think he's still doing Green Integer, but I'm not sure
	8:57pm Dean: I bought the first Sex Pistols' 45 in London, '76, in a drug store.
	8:57pm peter: i used to get some good Vietnamese CDs/DVDs at a drugstore in Field's Corner, Dorchester, MA
	8:58pm Dean: There are Indian markets in my neighborhood that have (in one case) hidden stashes of CDs.
	8:59pm rw: Evening!
	9:00pm Dean: ^ s/b (in one case hidden)
	♥ 9:00pm Gary: RW!
	9:01pm rw: I picked up a couple nice Indian CDs at random in a record store near Dean years ago.
	♥ 9:01pm Gary: Oh, man, so nice to hear everyone's finding music in drugstores (& other places)
	9:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Indian Bodega a block away has a wall of VHS.
	♥ 9:02pm Gary: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @9:01 VHS still!
	9:02pm rw: So Gary, you walk into a drugstore with an aisle of music. How many CDs do you go home with and how do you pick which ones?
	9:03pm Dean: If you remember, which store, rw?
	♥ 9:04pm Gary: ↳ rw @9:02 RW: I once walked out of a Cambodian market in the Bronx with a couple of bags of CDs and cassettes and illustrated Khmer lyric books -- it was a cash-only place, and so I had to empty my bank account of a couple hundred $$
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:04pm Listener Gregory: When I was a kid in suburban NJ, the only place to buy records was the local camera store. The owner's knowledge of music was on the order of "All the kids seem to love The Monkees."
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:04pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:04 Of course, I DID love The Monkees!
	9:05pm Dean: "A priest, a rabbi, and Gary walk into a drugstore with an aisle of music..." My biggest take was at the now defunct East Side Records in the La Cienega area of LA, just south of Griffith Park. The guy was some sort of outlet for mostly classical records from labels like Harmonia Mundi. I took off with a box of 50 CDs. Cost me $300.
	♥ 9:05pm Gary: ↳ Gary @9:04 I picked up maybe 50 to 100 pirated CDs at DJ Wow's in 2015 -- it was a bag or two filled with them
	9:06pm rw: Dean, I don't remember... it might have been on a corner up the hill from Pyramid Brewery. It was a pretty big store.
	♥ 9:06pm Gary: ↳ Dean @9:05 This is the kind of talk that makes me feel ok
	9:07pm Dean: Pyramid on Gilman in Berkeley? Or elsewhere?
	9:08pm Dean: My East Side take was in the '90s. To this day I have sealed CDs from that purchase.
	♥ 9:11pm Gary: ↳ rw @9:02 My philosophy is "Don't choose. Get them all"
	9:12pm rw: Dean, I think so. It was a long time ago. Is that the OG location?
	9:12pm Dean: Mine is, "Choose carefully, but err sometimes on the side of inclusion."
	9:15pm rw: Good philosophy Gary. Good for us listeners for sure!
	9:16pm Dean: Pyramid opened in Seattle. If you were in the Berkeley area, then you must have been to the brewery just blocks from where I sit. It closed in 2015. Must have been one of the Indian markets on University, a few blocks from Gilman, or maybe Sultana, which is just around the block.
	♥ 9:16pm Gary: ↳ rw @9:15 Bad for the wallet. When I have to choose, I try to get some hip hop, something that looks possibly psychedelic, something super stupid or bland looking, something very new, something very old
	♥ 9:18pm Gary: At bodegas, if I felt comfortable, I'd ask the person working there what they liked best. I had this one woman at a Balkan market sing one of her favorite songs from a CD she recommended to me. She sang it all the way through, from start to finish, while me and her co-worker looked on
	9:21pm Listener Gregory: Wow!
	9:22pm rw: Dean that sounds right. It was 20 yrs ago; thereabouts. Nice area to be sitting!
	♥ 9:25pm TDK60: Sounding great, Gary.
	9:25pm rw: Gary that sounds like a good strategy. Kind of the way my daughter plays roulette. She usually does pretty well.
	9:28pm Dean: I will typically lean toward a new recital of Bach--solo piano, solo violin, solo cello--that gets raves from Fanfare magazine. I'm rarely let down.
	9:29pm Dean: Can't have too many Goldberg Variations, cello suites, sonatas & partitas...
	♥ 9:30pm TDK60: Yeah, I got to check out Wendy's premiere the other day. Relaxed presentation, like sitting on her sofa while she spins.
	9:38pm peter: not from africa proper, but i've been on a big kick for kaseko, afro-surinamese dance music.. anyone else know this stuff?
	♥ 9:40pm Gary: ↳ peter @9:38 I might have some Surinamese CDs around her somewhere, mebbe? But saying I "know" that stuff would be a stretch
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:41pm doctorjazz: Been lurking, company, great sounds!
	♥ 9:42pm Gary: Doctor Jazz!
	9:44pm peter: i found a cool mixtape online of some of the modern stuff, which luckily has all of the rhythmic complexity of the old-school style intact, but electrified and played at breakneck speed.. very cool! i consider myself a drummer but can't even figure out what these guys are doing rhythm-wise.. they've got a sort of set-up similar to that of mexican banda, with the parts separated out to a snare drummer and a bass/splash player
	♥ 9:45pm Gary: Tears welling up in your eyes at the thought of the music ending? IT'S NOT ENDING! Sam Segal and his always-already Top of the Chops program, If You Lose Your Horse, begins right after this program, at 10:00 pm sharp. Tonight's episode: "Astonished Horse Leaves the Ranch by Force": wfmu.org...
	♥ 9:45pm Gary: ↳ peter @9:44 I gotta hear this, Peter!
	9:46pm peter: i'll see if i can dig up some links for you after the show!
	♥ 9:46pm Gary: ↳ peter @9:46 Danke
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:53pm doctorjazz: Going to Kenya and Rawanda in July, wonder if I can ship records back (trip cancelled by COVID, rescheduled)
	♥ 9:54pm Gary: ↳ doctorjazz @9:53 Whoa, jealous -- that sounds like an amazing trip
	9:54pm peter: This show had been one for the ages, Gary, thanks!
	♥ 9:55pm alanr: I was too lazy to bother checking in, but now off the couch and on my computer. Totally enjoying the show tonight, not just my love for this music, but my appreciation for someone doing the curating! Saludos from a rainy Mexico city.
	♥ 9:56pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "She's My Choice" by "Sweet Breeze" The vocalist reminds of Jimmy Cliff. / Good night, Gary!
	9:56pm Dean: Better, doc, videos from shows. Won't occupy the luggage.
	9:56pm Listener Gregory: @doctorj, I hear they’re just like New Jersey, only less Springsteen.
	9:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ Gary ~
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:58pm WR: So many great recordings tonight! Eh, just like every episode of Bodega Pop... Thank you! Gary!
	9:58pm rw: I hear the outro theme. Thank you Gary!
	🇰🇷 ♥ 9:59pm Listener Gregory: You're our choice, Gary. Great show! Thanks for lifting our spirits even though they weren't low to begin with.
	♥ 10:00pm Gary: Night, everyone! Hi Alan!
	5:22pm Marie in Queens: Another fantastic show. Thanks so much, Gary. PS: I am your neighbor--I live in Woodside @)

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from March 29, 2023

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